Canadian Vasek Pospisil, who gained the boys’s doubles title at Wimbledon in 2014, introduced he’ll retire after this week’s Canadian Open in Toronto.
Pospisil, 35, obtained a main-draw wild card entry. The event begins Sunday.
“It is by no means straightforward making a choice like this,” Pospisil mentioned in a submit to X. “Tennis has been an enormous a part of my life, but it surely has turn out to be clear, each mentally and bodily, that it is the proper time to step away. I really feel extremely grateful to have had the profession I’ve had, particularly coming from a small city the place this dream as soon as felt so far-off.”
Pospisil racked up profession earnings of $7.2 million, per the ATP, and recorded rating highs of No. 4 in doubles (2015) and No. 25 in singles (2014).
Pospisil partnered with Jack Sock to say the Wimbledon doubles title. He was additionally a part of Canada’s Davis Cup-winning group in 2022.
–Discipline Degree Media